Andy Stone

Fashion model Trixi Giese poses with the logo of TikTok at a recent fashion show in Germany. The social media company has come under fire for the data it supposedly collects on its users.Photo: Adam Berry (Getty Images)Tick tock goes the clock. It seems that every day we find more examples of the ways some of the most popular social media apps are collecting data on users. Now TikTok itself seems to be wound up pretty tight about allegations they’rekeylogging users using code found inside the in-app browser.The security…

As TikTokers published offers to help abortion seekers and privacy experts gave advice on period tracking apps, Dr. Josh Trebach worked urgently to bring attention to a 19-year-old he described on Twitter as vomiting in his emergency room. The patient had taken the herb Rue to try to abort a fetus because they no longer had access to a safe, legal abortion method. Now they were now at risk dying or, at the very least, developing serious health issues. Fortunately, the 19-year-old wasn’t real.Trebach, an emergency medicine…

Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images)Facebook users writing about mailing abortion pills had their posts removed this week, and in some cases, their accounts temporarily suspended, for violating the company’s terms of service rules against buying, selling, or exchanging drugs. However, testing conducted by Gizmodo and previous reporting from Vice suggests Facebook is only flagging certain, less active accounts and leaving little room for distinctions between actively selling drugs online and posts attempting to spread…

This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here.The summer of 2020 proved to be a boiling point for Facebook on climate change. The company had made efforts to insulate its users against the health-related hoaxes that had engulfed its platform as the pandemic began. Some seven million posts were axed between April and June, which did not go unnoticed. The apparent seriousness with which Facebook, now known as Meta,had responded…